I printed off the referall form from this site and took it to my family doc to fill out

My RE (infertility doc) did the initial referal tho

http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/services.asp?pid=service&rid=1008784

I only reached 10,000 steps a day twice during my year at the clinic pre-op.....they dont care as long as your tracking it.

As mentioned above, look at your food choices for 1700 calories and see if you can shrink in some areas.
veggies are great snacks.
How i seperated my day was 3 500cal meals and 2 100cal snacks. 
100cals in veggies is a LOT.

Also, if you can adjust your day to accomodate, have a glass of milk before bed. It'll help the bedtime hunger.  Also, is it actual hunger? or head hunger your feeling?

You can vent anytime.

Sometime it's hard to adjust to new habits and it will take awhile but it does get easier. If you think 1700 is hard wait until after surgery and you're only eating 400-700 for a while. It'll change but there are still days when I only eat 800-900 calories. The adjustment is more mental after surgery.

You really need to evaluate your food choices when trying to lose weight. Beef and pork are usually higher in calories than fish and chicken. Ground turkey or chicken over hamburger. Over 1/2 your plate should be filled with veggies to keep the calories down but your tummy full. Don't drink your calories cause it's a waste. Eat an orange instead of drinking the juice. I use weigh****cher bread or little big bread instead of regular, it's smaller but at least the calories for 2 slice are less than 1 slice of regular bread. If you can cut out add on such as butter, mayonnaise, change to lite peanut butter, low fat cheese slice and read labels, lots of no name product have less calories and sodium than bran name. It's a learning process but if you do it right you will reap the rewards.

10,000 steps when you first start the clinic is a goal it's not a requirement. If you track your steps each and everyday you should be aiming to do more tomorrow than you did today. It's not gonna happen overnight and the clinic knows that. Many of their patients lead sedentary lives because of their weight issues and can barely get 1000 steps a day. It's a work in progress.

I think you're just being hard on yourself. Stop, breathe and pat yourself on the back for taking the necessary step in life to get into the clinic. It'll get easier and soon you'll be looking back and going wow I did it.

Chin Up.

Kee.

Thanks for the replies.  Unfortunately I did not go through the Edmonton clinic, I actually had my surgery in Ontario before moving out here.

That's very unfortunate that he only deals with people through that one clinic at the moment.  Oh well, it was worth a try :)